There is a theory that if you pick up a book and turn to page 69, you will know if the book is interesting or not
so we are putting it to the test...
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p 69
“I’m not feeling
well.”
“Well you better
damn well get yourself … up to it. This is my night and I expect you there. The
whole town will expect to see you there.”
Annie spent a
good part of the night crying and her head felt like it was going to explode.
There was no way she felt up to acting on command. “Scott, I can’t.” She
started to clear the table from the breakfast dishes.
Scott shot up
from his seat and grabbed her arm. Annie spilled the half cup of cold coffee
she had just picked up. “You are going. That’s it.”
She tried to pull
her arm back. He wouldn’t let go. “Scott, you’re hurting me.”
“You will be
there tonight or I will really hurt you.”
“No.” Annie was
trying not to cry. “I… just can’t go tonight,”
She struggled to
get away. He shoved her and she fell to the ground.
Before Annie
could get up, Scott turned to his mother and told her to call the doctor. He
held her down. “Okay, you want an excuse not to go?”
Annie could hear
Dianne on the phone. “Yes, she tried to hurt herself. Yes, twenty-four hours,
yes.”
“We’ll bring her
in. Make sure he’s got everything arranged.”
“No, Scott
please.”
“Now you don’t
have to go anywhere tonight.”
An orderly met
Scott and Dianne at the door as they struggled to bring Annie into the
facility. Scott forced pills down Annie’s throat at the house and she was no
longer speaking clearly. Her protests were incomprehensible rants to bystander
ears.
The attending
doctor instructed the orderly and a nurse to bring her into a room and use
restraints. “Prepare to give her five of Haldol.” The doctor hoped the
antipsychotic would help bring her out of her manic behavior. He turned his
attention back to the seemingly distraught husband. “How long has she been like
this?”
No one believed
her when she denied trying to hurt herself. Scott appeared appropriately upset
and Dianne comforted him.
“This
episode?”Scott looked directly into the doctor’s face. “She’s been off since
she got up this morning. We were having breakfast and she went into the kitchen
and got a knife…”
“Did she try to
attack you or your mother?”
“No. I don’t
think that was her intention. At least I didn’t get that impression.” He
feigned innocence. “It’s been a while since she’s had an episode like this.”
Annie tried to
call Scott a liar but the words wouldn’t come out.
“Do you know if
she took anything?” The doctor headed towards the room Annie was in.
“No.
I mean she was out of my sight for about a minute or two, that’s when she got
the knife.” Scott and his mother followed closely behind.
Do you believe in karma? Annie Furman has a gift that allows her, while she sleeps, to visit people in their time of need - but who will be there for her when she needs help? Undersheriff Dave Turner is investigating a series of home invasions and homicides. He has no idea that solving this case will lead him to the woman of his dreams.
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